in martial arts, you need to build strength and power before learning techniques.
i believe in this whole "strength before technique" thing there is also a metaphor for other things in life. im a bit tired to figure out. feel free to speculate aaaway
also, if you come across any links abt power/muscle/strength building for smaller people throw them this way ^_^ muscle building for girls n that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNCG8PQGhwU halal dreams are okay. iwe just musnt get distracted. thats hard.

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is SILENCE, the second is LISTENING, the third is MEMORY, the fourth is PRACTICE, the fifth is TEACHING others.

-Solomon Ibn Gabiral

so what do you think each steps represent in our daily lives?

Over in the Halaal Meat: HMC Vs HFA topic when discussing the topic of meat certified as halaal was found to contain pork was certified by the HFA, it was pointed out that the HFA was shocked, angry and demanding answers.

Shocked and angry and being fooled by one of their suppliers?

No.

They were shocked, angry and demanding answers from the people who uncovered this scandal.

Link to HFA demanding explanation

Kind of ludicrous of them, shooting the messenger. They should be demanding explanations from themselves as to why they didn't uncover this themselves?

Hummus was going to do a topic on this, but she didn't because I thought there was no need. But now I'm selfish for thinking so, and I'm sure many people may benefit from it. 

My point of this blog is WHY do we get attached?

I don't mean getting attached to people, but in terms of the more materialistic stuff, why is it so hard to let go?

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I read this article a while back about how we are blinkered to reality and we need to detach ourselves from the world if we don't want to suffer.

You will always be tested on the thing that you are most attached to, and that attachment will become the biggest source of pain for you UNLESS you learn to control it.

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I AM KASHMIR. Here's some new spoken word poetry by San'aa Sultan for y'all. Have a listen at: https://soundcloud.com/sanaa-sultan/i-am-kashmir. Kashmir has been under siege for the past five days with no medicine, food, communication or internet. Our silence will allow this to continue, so please don't stop here. Find out much more about the situation in Kashmir and spread the word. 

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a short, just under half an hour video about salaah, something we do 5 times a day. because we do it so often, the how, whys, whats etc...kinda becomes blurry in our minds, this is a beautiful reminder i just listened to mashaaAllah. Most of the stuff in there you probably already know, but bringing it back to the front of our mind is important.  advice and reminder are important in our religion. and faith has levels and increases and decreases; i pray this video will be a booster to your imaan level. Ameen.

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